Awkward, but pleasant. I saw her face darken and her fists clench. She glared at the blondie and folded her arms across her chest.

I had quickly stopped and detached from the blondie when I saw her, but our conversation had floated by, and so did my voice.

Intentionally.

" Leave," she ordered the blondie. I expected her to scowl, huff and puff about my lowliness and my lack of discretions. At that point anything could do. As long as I had her undivided attention.

With the girl gone, ...